New NAS coming - Synology DS1817

[Peanuthead]

Is it me or does it seem odd that the DS1817 has better numbers than the DS1817+?

Synology Introduces DiskStation DS1517 and DS1817
Performance - Products | Synology Inc.

 

[nitrobass24]

Yes their strategy lately makes no sense to me.

The 1817 also has built-in 10GBe!

 

[Peanuthead]

I would rather have the PCIe slot but not at a 50% premium over the base model. I called their support and he said email product inquires.

 

[Peanuthead]

It looks like Newegg changed the preorder price from 599.99 to 849.99.

 

[Evan]

I am still surprised they have the different non-Intel and then Intel chips in play , why not standardise or at least except the real low end arm units.

I have a DS413 that's still doing fine for what I use it for (file dump) but can't see myself buying another commercial NAS just due to how limited they seem despite doing exactly what they are expected to do. I Guess I like to play

And they are not that cheap for what they do...

 

[Peanuthead]

At the 599 price I should've placed a pre-order in. It would've been nice to have 10 Giggy for the home network. At that price though I think it's a little high for what you're getting. I don't disagree on feature versus price on prebuilt units but there is another side of it that people really mention. That side being the low management to no management overhead of a prebuilt.

 

[Evan]

Yes minimal management but so is windows server set to auto update.

All the different cpu types as I have found out means sometimes things break and are not tested as well as they should be, so just based on my current DS413 experience I would not say it's been all smooth sailing.

 

[nitrobass24]

Yes minimal management but so is windows server set to auto update.

All the different cpu types as I have found out means sometimes things break and are not tested as well as they should be, so just based on my current DS413 experience I would not say it's been all smooth sailing.

Definitely some truth to this, but I think as long as you stay on an Intel Chip (even Atom) you are safe. Its when they have these seemingly ramdom ARM chips that inconsistencies seem to pop up.

 

[Evan]

Definitely some truth to this, but I think as long as you stay on an Intel Chip (even Atom) you are safe. Its when they have these seemingly ramdom ARM chips that inconsistencies seem to pop up.

Which is more or less why I wondered why they have not just standardised on Intel especially at the higher end units, They keep trying the special risc or arm custom chips that sound great but simply done deliver what they promised.

 

[BlueFox]

Looks like a cheaper version of the DS2015xs. Unfortunately not being x86 based, you lose out on btrfs, which I thought was one of the highlights of Synology's higher end offferings.

 

[Peanuthead]

I guess it is just available on the + series. I would move to QNAP if the software was near that of Synology's